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15th century in philosophy
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This is a list of philosophy-related events in the 15th century.
Events
1433 – Baverius de Bonittis starts teaching philosophy and logic at the University of BolognaKristeller, p. 440
1433 – Ambrogio Traversari completed his translation of Lives and Opinions of Eminent PhilosophersSchmitt, p. 70 Lepage, p. 27
Publications
1433 – Lorenzo Valla publishes his much modified second edition of De voluptate (On Pleasure) while on sojourn in PaviaLorch, p. 214
1499 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Discorso sopra le cose di Pisa
1500 – Desiderius Erasmus, Collectanea Adagiorum
Births
1433 – Marsilio Ficino (d. 1499).Marsilio Ficino, entry by Christopher Celenza in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Christian Neoplatonist, head of Florentine Academy and major Renaissance Humanist figure. First translator of Plato's complete extant works into Latin.
1433 – Nil Sorsky (d. 1508), Russian HesychastLaos, p. 158
c.1467 – Desiderius Erasmus (d. 1536).Vredeveld Harry 1993 The Ages of Erasmus and the Year of His Birth Renaissance Quarterly 46 4 754–809 10.2307/3039022 3039022 251375496
1467 – John Major (or Mair) (d. 1550). Scottish logicianhttps://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/major-john-1467-1550/v-1 Major, John (1467–1550) Biard Joel Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy 22 September 2018
Deaths
1432 or 1433 – Ibn Turkah (Sa'in al-Din Turkah Isfahani), an influential Turcoman scholar and Sufist philosopher at the School of Isfahan, exiled by Tamerlane until the latter's death. The date of Ibn Turkah's death is uncertain; either 1432 or 1433.Nasr, p. 209
1499 – Marsilio Ficino (b. 1433). See Births
See also
List of centuries in philosophy
References
Alexander Broadie. History of Scottish Philosophy. Edinburgh University Press. 2009. Chapter 3. Pages 34 to 46.
Bibliography
Kristeller, Paul Oskar, Studies in Renaissance Thought and Letters, Volume 3, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1993 8884983339.
Laos, Nicolas, The Metaphysics of World Order, Pickwick Publications, 2015 9781498201018.
Lepage, John L., The Revival of Antique Philosophy in the Renaissance, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 1137281812.
Lorch, Maristella de Panizza, "Voluptas, molle quoddem et non invidiosum nomen: Lorenzo Valla's defense of Voluptas in the preface to his De voluptate", pp. 214–228 in, Mahoney, Edward Patrick (ed), Philosophy and Humanism, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976 9004043780.
Nasr, Seyyed Hossein, Islamic Philosophy from Its Origin to the Present, State University of New York Press 0791481557.
Schmitt, Charles B., "John Wolley (ca. 1530–1596) and the first Latin translations of Sextus Empiricus", pp. 61–70 in, Watson, Richard A. (ed); Force, James E. (ed), The Sceptical Mode in Modern Philosophy, Springer, 2012 9400927444.
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